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Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Birth Name:
    Sacha Noam Baron Cohen
  • Date of Birth:
    October 13, 1971
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Libra
  • Place of Birth:
    London, England, UK
  • Height:
    6' 3"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    British
  • Education:

    St Columba's College Prep School, St Albans, Hertfordshire

    Christ's College, Cambridge

Family

Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Father:
    Gerald Baron Cohe
  • Mother:
    Daniella
  • Brother:
    Erran Baron Cohen
  • Spouse:
    Isla Fisher
  • Daughter:
    Olive Cohen

Career

Sacha Baron Cohen

Trivia

Sacha Baron Cohen
  • His brother Erran Baron Cohen is a member of the British electronica music group Zöhar. Sacha has often done background vocals in the past for the band. Sacha's brother Erran was also the composer for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
  • Sacha is good friends with WWE wrestler John Cena.
  • Sacha is a big fan of professional wrestling.
  • Sacha and partner Isla Fisher welcomed their first child into the world in October 2007. The couple named her Olive.
  • In December 2007 Sacha killed off two of his most popular characters, Ali G and Borat, as he felt they were becoming too big.
  • At the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, Sacha won for Best Comedic Performance for the movie Borat.
  • In 2007 it was revealed that Sacha & Isla Fisher were expecting their first child together.
  • Sacha turned down the opportunity to present an award at the 2007 Academy Award ceremony because he wasn't allowed to present it as his alias "Borat".
  • In January 2007, Borat was ranked
  • 19 in GQ magazine’s annual top 100 of most powerful men in Britain.

Quotes

Sacha Baron Cohen
  • "It's wonderful that the films are successful, but every new person who sees the movie is one less person I can be Borat or Bruno with again, so finishing a movie means having to say goodbye. Admitting that you're never going to play the character again is like saying goodbye to a loved one. And that's hard."
  • “Is it because I is black?”
  • "I think that, essentially, I'm a private person, and to reconcile that with being famous is a hard thing. So I've been trying to have my cake and eat it too - to have my character be famous yet still lead a normal life where I'm not trapped by fame and recognizability...I guess I've been greedy. Maybe it's time to let go."
  • "I've been in a bizarre situation, where a country has declared me as its number-one enemy. It's inherently a comic situation. I mean, it's always risky when you don't go down the normal route. I wish I would've been there at the briefing that Bush got about who I am, who Borat is. It would have had to be great."
  • "I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his quote was, 'The path to Auschwitz was paved with indifference.' I know it's not very funny being a comedian talking about the Holocaust, but I think it's an interesting idea that not everyone in Germany had to be a raving anti-Semite. They just had to be apathetic."
  • "Borat is based actually on a guy I met in southern Russia. I can't remember his name. He was a doctor. The moment I met him I was totally crying. He was a hysterically funny guy, albeit totally unintentionally."
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Biography

Sacha Baron Cohen
Last Updated: Saturday, November 14, 2009

Sacha Baron CohenComedian Sacha Baron Cohen made his fame playing the goofy television interviewer Ali G, a dimwitted hip-hop poseur with a cockney accent. Ali G appeared on The 11 O'Clock Show (1998) and Da Ali G Show (2000-03), where he duped prominent Britons and Americans into participating in TV interviews. Ali G's extreme ignorance and the earnest exasperation of the unsuspecting interviewees was the source of much hilarity, and Da Ali G Show became a hit, first in the U.K. and then in the United States.

Cohen also expanded his phony-character repertoire to include Borat Sagdiyev, a TV reporter from Kazakhstan, and a flamboyant Austrian fashionista named Bruno. As Ali G he has starred in the feature film Ali G Indahouse (2002), and as Borat he starred in the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006).

Cohen, who is Jewish, has been criticized for the anti-Semitism and misogyny that is part of the Borat schtick, but his fans argue that he uses politically charged language as a way to reveal the bigotry of others, especially Americans. Cohen has also done voice work for the movie Madagascar (2005, with Ben Stiller), and he appeared in the Will Ferrell comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) and Tim Burton's 2007 movie Sweeney Todd (starring Johnny Depp).

Cohen became engaged to Australian actress Isla Fisher in 2004.

Filmography

Sacha Baron Cohen

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